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Or, refers literally to the DRAMATIC manner that a hungry「tiger」attacks a「pig」and the manner in which the pig attempts to defend itself, the same INTENSITY as a sword slash perhaps, or,「sword cuts」represent the slashing claws of the tiger and slashing tusks of the boar or warthog, in a DRAMATIC duel to the death, the pig's being the most likely. Applied to the plot of a DRAMA as the main meaning, since the outcome of the contest between the tiger and pig is seldom in any doubt, the same as the plot of a DRAMATIC STAGE PLAY. Most likely though, humans weren't often around to witness wild tigers literally reaming, severing wild warthogs.
Note to the audience: dramas and stage plays are often rehearsed, and played by actors, for the purposes of entertainment and taking cash receipts from the patrons…it is fiction, a SHOW in exchange for your money, that continues nightly until the run is over.
External source definitions …excluding politically incorrect concepts and other meanings deemed offensive today; may include extended definitions, euphemisms, and mnemonics)
Chinese: drama; play; show; severe
Japanese EDRDG: drama, play
Unihan extended: theatrical plays, opera, drama
Always keep in mind that these glyphs most likely were originally designed by groups of clever old men as vulgar riddles for their own entertainment
(see 籒 for that),
representing Chinese society many thousands of years ago, but intended NOT as a written or spoken language when created.
If these glyphs had been intended for language use, the sages could not have possibly designed a worse system!
Is it truly possible that all these glyphs started out as off-color jokes and puzzles?
Yes! It is, and often with multiple correct answers to each riddle, the same as is true today.
Sex had no shame in ancient China.
Why would it?
But, have there been necessary rewrites and altered explanations of the original elemental meanings over the centuries?
No one is suggesting these glyphs depict contemporary life in China, Japan, or anywhere else.
This site describes glyph meanings, not people.
These glyphs however, describe many and various things, including people, long before there were any notions of becoming politically incorrect.
The question to be answered is, should these glyphs continue being used, by anyone, anywhere, for expressing language?
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Despite how seemingly bad our human existence is today, do you actually believe that the so-called good old days were any better?
Or could they have been worse?
By the way, with a limited number of the same elements used by the sages again and again to form these glyphs,
you should expect to find the same explanations again and again, as tedious as that may become, and as an inherent trait of any lexicon.
This site explains multiple meanings of glyphs ignored or censored by other sources, generally as being too embarrassing to admit today.
Primal elements
Japanese vocabulary: 120 entries
Chinese usage: 80 entries
Similar glyphs with related meanings: 20 entries
- Glyph.09197
- Strokes: 15
- jlpt-N3 grade_06
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